The yellow collection has all the scenes in which Georgie appears or gets a mention.At this stage, focusing on dialogue, it’s useful to create collections that relate to individual characters, or topics of conversation, or locations where discussions take place. Scrivener also assigns a different colour to each collection, so you can easily identify which particular subset of documents you are working on: the whole manuscript (ie the Binder) or one of the subsets (ie a collection).ĭuring second-fix self-editing, I use collections mostly to check for continuity. When you select Save Search As Collection, Scrivener offers you the search key as the name for the collection and it makes sense to accept this suggestion. You can create many collections for a single project. You can then set aside time to work on this collection, without reference to the rest of the scenes in your manuscript. (Save Search As Collection… is the last item on the menu.) Indeed, having done a Project search, it makes sense to save the found documents as a collection. Split screens – so I can reference other material while working on any scene within my collectionĪ collection is a way of viewing a subset of the Binder documents this ‘view’ can be created using a Project search.Linguistic focus – to identify dialogue as opposed to non-dialogue within those scenes.
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